The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1887-06-02
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Items OF Interest Gathered from VurIou.
~. Quarters

| Ohioh u III session In new ork.
Lord Landsdowne owns something like
30, 600 acres in County Kerry alone.
United States Treasurer Hyatt has duly
qualified.
Daniel Manning will soon return to New
York. His health is greatly improved.
Three cases of yellow fever are reported
OF Key West.
The Virginia Legislature has adjourned
sine de.
Pleuro. pneumonia has appeared among
cattle in Baltimore.
On the night of the 22nd, Sumter had
two shocks Of earthquake and one fire.
More than 700 bodies we're crematcd at
| Toxic, Japan, during the month Of March. |
A plot to assassinate the Sultan has been |
discovered and the Turkish ruler is badly |
frightened.
A cordial and complimentary welcome
was extended to O'Bricn by the New York |
Legislature.
The great cotton mill of Parent & LIE.
mairc, at Roubaix, Franco, in the Depart
mcnt du Nord, has been burned.
Both houses of the Virginia Legislature
adopted resolutions Of sympathy with Ire
land.
The Surgeon General Of the United
States has been notified Of yellow fever at
Key West.
a jury has been empanelcd for the trial
| of Jacob Sharpe, charged with bribery in
| New York.
. Bricn has received a note warning him,
on pain Of death, not to enter Kingston or
| Ottawa again.
q storm at San Angelo, TeX'.s on Tues.
day night destroyed $20, 900 worth Of prop,
erty.
movement is on foot to consolidate
New York and Brooklyn as one murici-
palty.
The Augusta knights Of Labor have
arranged to pay all their debts growing out
Of the strikes last year
1t is stated that the Charleston, Cincin.
natl and Chicago Railroad is owned by the
South Carolina Railway Company.
John Thompson, his wife, his three chill
drcn and his wifes sister were drowned of
Hamilton, Ont, on Tuesday night.
The graduating class at Princeton this
r year will plant slip of ivy sent them by
/ Mrs Cleveland, the Presidents wife.
a heavy storm at Montgomery, Ala.
Tuesday, unroofcd several houses and up.
rooted many trees.
The Georgia State Funeral Directors AS,
socii'tion have had u jolly time at their
meeting in Augusta.
AT Hamilton, Ont, O'Brcns carriage
was fired into, and the driver slightly
wounded. The occupants escaped unhurt.
The Canadian Pacific Railroad has Sc
cured an entrance into Chicago through
, some agreement with the Michigan Central
The President has appointed f. Henry
LaCOmbc, of New York city. to bc addi-
tion"I Circuit Judge in the Second Judicial
Circuit.
Tie President has appointed L. W. Reid
of Virginia., Assistant Register of the
Treasury. This q promotion. Reid was
alrcady employed in the Registers office.
A culored man with the smallpox escaped
from the Jersey City police on Tuesday
last and wondered over New York and
Brooklyn. lie was rccaptured.
Judge Bond has granted an injunction to
rCstraIm suits in the Virginia courts against
deCnulting taxpayers who have rendered
State coupons in payment Of taxes.
, The Railroad Commission continues to
receive petitions for and against The suspcn.
sion "l the clause as to long ard short
haul,.
The changes in the Calais harbor, now
ncarir completed, will shorten the journey
from London to Paris to seven and half
hOu%.
10 SliDN lllil IlNJ over 'W per cent.
, OF tie inmates of the Massachusetts State
. Prison are returned to it for subsequent
crimes.
The Rev. Richard Newton, -. D., a dis,
2 tingulshcd Protestant Episcopal clergyman,
died Ht his residence in Philadelphia on
Wednesday morning, aged Il years.
Recent rains throughout the Northwest
have cXlinguishcd most of the forest fires
) which have been raging in Wisconsin and
Upper Michigan.
Sherman Bacon, colOrcd, was accident
ally killed by VIM. Prcnty, who pointed q
gun al him, not knowing it was loaded.
Both Of Savannah.
Deputy United States marshals have ar
rested four more men on the Southern Pa.
, ciilc Railroad, suspected of being impli
Gated in the recent train robbery.
Mnrcnm l.. Scgurn, manager of the
Philadelphia Umbrella Company, at 4J
North Tth street, has left that city, leaving,
it is alleged, deficiency of $4,000 in his
accounts.
Queen Fictorias assistant master of the
| ceremonies wears q curious badge of Office
suspended from his chain, with an allcgori.
cal representation Of peace on one side,
which is reversed in times of war
Among the fifteen young theological stu
| IlCHJS SIatltJCu from inc Auburn 1nCO-
logical Seminary, New York, few days
ago, were Hindoo, a negro and several
| Europeans.
The Hon. VIM. y. Kelley, of Pcnnsyl-
| vania, is to write in tho NunutacturerS
| RcC0TN series Of articles on the industrial
condition Of the South. He will incidcn-
tally argue in favor of protection.
The Travellers Protective Association,
numbering 10000, declare their purpose to
use their influence in future campaigns to
to elect Congressman who will vote to re-
peal the Interstate Commerce law.
The sale of the French Crown Jewels has
been concluded. The chief lot, the dia-
mond head dress, was sold in sixteen pieces
for go, 600 francs. The proceeds from the
nine days sale amounted to G, ,8Gi 900 francs.
Chattanooga has subscribed $3.50, 900 to
the Mammoth Reaper and Mower Works,
soon to be removed from the North to that
city. The works will employ $40O, 600
capital and 700 hands